WELCOME TO SHAW 650

Welcome to www.Shaw650.com, the home of one of the world's fastest production 6.5m sportsboats!

The Shaw 650 created by Designer Rob Shaw is a lightweight design that is easily driven, with lower sheet loads, easier planing and easier transportation. If you want to combine outstanding downwind performance with a boat that is rewarding and enjoyable sailing around any race course, we've got the answer to keeping up with the fleet (or leaving the fleet behind). Our production Shaw 650 is fast, affordable and fun, to find out more about our design you've come to the right place!

The Shaw 650 already offers class racing in Australia, and has growing fleets in Thailand, USA, NZ and Switzerland. We are the only sportsboat class that both offers production boats as well as actively supporting home builds, with plans available and one design rules developed to encourage home builds to race against glass boats. Production Shaw 650s offer high quality with performance to match.

Continuing a winning habit begun almost since getting the boat, David Ellis showed once again he is the quickest Shaw 650 in Australia, with a resounding win at Geelong's Festival of Sails 2015.

Finishing with 13 points over 8 races including 3 wins, the newly named Shaw 650 Dripping Wet (formerly Moneyshot) came in 3rd just a point behind the 2nd placed Viper Qld owned by former Shaw 650 racer the Leigh Hyphen Smiths.

Bringing in the new year with a nice little trophy haul, David Ellis managed another great performance, winning Div 1 (the light sportsboats division) and 2nd overall in the ASBA 2015 Nationals, held in Sydney Harbour over the new year period.

With racing held over 10 races and 4 days, initially it was Octopussy and Rees Howell who were muscling in on the top spot, but an unfortunate gear breakage on day 3 (snapped rudder pin) saw them DNF in the last race, followed by a final day not worth remembering, when they dropped more points than we've ever seen before - not sure what happened but no doubt Rees and his crew will be back on full steam next regatta! Octopussy did manage to pick up 3rd place in Div 1 as well, though, so probably that's better than a kick in the teeth. With Shaws 1st and 3rd in the lightweights....well I guess if you want to be up the front end of the fleet, this is the type of boat you want to consider innit!

Mr Consistency, David Ellis, managed to string together a bunch of good results, always in the front half of the fleet, and that was enough for another addition to the trophy cabinet. Andrew Waugh (woh woh woh what is he good for) managed a very slick 1st overall and 1st for Div 2 (the heavier sportsboats) in his Thompson 8 Zippier for Sale, which is, yes you guessed it, for sale.

Congratulations to all the racers, and for full results check out the excellent ASBA site and their results page here:
http://www.asba.org.au/2015-national-titles-results/

There are some great event pictures shown here from Sports Photography:
http://www.sportsailingphotography.com/Sailing/ASBA-Sport-Boat-National/

We really like this one of the Stig heading downhill!:
http://www.sportsailingphotography.com/Sailing/ASBA-Sport-Boat-National/i-4Cj7Chq/1/S/_MG_7385_The%20Stig-S.jpg